Academics

The Booher Library supports Seminary of the Southwest students, faculty and staff by providing access to electronic resources for research. These resources are readily available on campus, but require a username and password for off campus access. Please contact a librarian for assistance. Visitors and guests may use electronic resources in the library during regular library hours.

Students/Faculty/Staff

Discovery Tools

Seeker
Seeker is the Booher Library’s EBSCO Discovery Service. It is a one stop searchbox that provides access to all the available resources in the Booher Library. This not only includes print books, journals, and audio-visual materials, but also all our available electronic journals, ebooks, and databases. Seeker also includes Research Starters, an encyclopedic entry into many popular subjects to provide you the background you may need to get started on your next research topic.

Publication Finder
Publication Finder is a comprehensive listing of every online journal title available through our subscription Databases and the cataloged print journals available in the Booher Library.

LibGuides
Libguides are librarian generated web pages created to help our community find information about resources, perform various tasks, and do research.

ATLASerials PLUS and EBSCO Databases
This is a large set of databases covering several subject areas on the EBSCO platform. It includes ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) – an online full-text collection of major religion and theology journals, and many of the databases we receive through TexShare (see the link below).

Cambridge Histories Online
The Cambridge Histories series include more than 300 volumes, grouped into topics to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas.

Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle’s website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

EBSCO eBooks
We provide access to over 23,000 ebooks through EBSCO. This is a collection that we are actively growing. Look for some enjoyable fiction to read or a scholarly book to support your next paper.

JSTOR Religion & Theology Collection
The JSTOR Religion & Theology Collection covers the history and philosophy of religious thought spanning traditions, periods, and critical approaches. The collection contains more than 80 titles, drawn exclusively from existing JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections. It supports religious studies research as well as scholarship in archaeology, literature, philosophy, and more.

Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an easy way to learn languages online. Mango Languages is a well developed system, calling on the necessities of language learning to aid you in your quest to become a fluent speaker. With Mango, you’ll learn vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture all in one integrated experience. There’s a lot under the hood, but it’s deliciously simple on the surface.

Medline Full-Text
This database provides full-text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE. Many journals are available with no embargo, allowing doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers access to the information as soon as it is published. It contains full text for more than 1,400 journals with coverage dating back to 1949.

The New York Times
The New York Times is a Pulitzer Prize winning, American newspaper. It has worldwide readership and the largest combined print and digital circulation of any daily newspaper. Now members of the SSW community can have complete access to the paper and all its digital content through the NYTimes.com Site Licence. The Site License allows each SSW member to create a personal subscription to the NYTimes.com website with access anywhere, anytime. Visit the library’s NYTimes LibGuide for more information on how to sign up.

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Scholarship Online
An online library offering access to thousands of academic works from the celebrated scholary list of Oxford University Press. OSO covers subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

PsycArticles
PsycArticles is a robust database offering complete access to the full text of more than 100 landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.

PsycBooks
Updated monthly, PsycBooks is an extensive collection of peer-reviewed books that provides students, researchers, and educators access to high-quality publications in psychology and related fields. PsycBooks includes the newest scholarly and professional books published by APA including reference works from the APA Handbooks in Psychology® Series that delve deep into specific subfields within psychology.

TexShare databases
We are afforded a large collection of databases by being a participating member of TexShare, a consortium of libraries administered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Find here a complete listing of TexShare databases.

Alumni Access

We are continually working to improve access to library resources for our alum. Click on Seeker Alum to begin your search.

Seeker Alum
This portal will take you to the resources that are available to you by simply entering the username and password. If you don’t know it, please contact a librarian.

Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an easy way to learn languages online. Mango Languages is a well developed system, calling on the necessities of language learning to aid you in your quest to become a fluent speaker. With Mango, you’ll learn vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture all in one integrated experience. There’s a lot under the hood, but it’s deliciously simple on the surface.

Iona Collaborative

Iona Collaborative provides high-quality theological education for the formation of priests and deacons in their local diocesan settings, educating a new generation of ordained leaders who for various reasons cannot attend a residential seminary.

Iona Seeker
This portal will take you to the resources that are available to you by simply entering the username and password. If you don’t know it, please contact an Iona Initiative administrator.